Weight-loss surgeon promotes healthy diet The Republic

Dec 02, 2011

We all know being overweight is not good for our health, our job hunts, even our love lives.

“There is an epidemic of people weighing more than is healthy for them,” agrees Dr. Joe Colella, a leading robotic bariatric surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pa.

“There is a disproportionate growth of the super-obese and an even bigger growth among that segment of the population not even thinking of losing weight. Hospitals — hospital beds, for example — are not prepared to serve people who weigh too much,” he says.

Colella is one of fewer than 16 bariatric surgeons nationally performing robot-assisted bariatric surgery, which its advocates say is less invasive than traditional bariatric surgery.

In the following interview, he discusses weight loss through dieting as well as through bariatric surgery — both the stomach-constricting Lap Band, made by Irvine-based Allergan, and the stomach-detouring gastric bypass.

Q: You are talking about the really obese, right? How much “overweight” can people be without feeling obese?

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